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A OUEMLER 3, 1906. THE SUNNY SOUTH THIRD RAGE Palma, a Pathetic Figure, Scorned bv Nation to Whom He Has Given d.Ill He Was M>!i- years :mo tile P'>P- • I’tT *'«■•! of Iiis country- | Ui<n. he assumed tin- head of the new Cuban respun- 1 lie - in tin- midst of general . celttim. Now he with draws a heartbroken oiei man, hated by the revolu- , tionists, and scorned even | by many of his own for- in;r i artisans. i he publication pf I’alma's letters to • President Roosevelt, in which as early as ! Sepi ember 4, he announced his intention ! ° give up the struggle to preserve peace ! on the island, and asked the United > states to take charge, entranged from him many of his closest friends. Right- ! or wrongly 1, they argued that the part I of true valor wouid have been to keep j up the effort a little longer before pro- i paring to surrender that comp ete free- ! dom for which Cuba had battled during j a oenturv of bloodshed and wrong 'But Palma was a man of peace, and j could not stand the prospect of war and bloody conflicts, sc he resigned, and to- : day, at 70 years of age. the former head of the republic stands broken and alone, with small funds and a big family to : care for. • HIS CRUEL FATE. Plate ha f played Palma, the Cuban pa- ; triot, many cruel pranks, but this last : i* certainly the saddest. The white-haired old man who now re- j turns to private life, has been tip and i down during all his life, and it was the j intertwining of his fortunes with those j of his beloved Cuba that accounted for j hie vicissitudes. CJp in Central Valley, New York, they j speak of Palma as the "schoolmaster, ' I from the fact that he was conducting in j the quietude of that little town a school j for Cuban boys, when the call came the* • took him to the highest office in the gif j of his countrymen. Central Va ley would gladly welcome i hint tack, for Palma made many friends during the years he spent there who are stili loyal to him. but the house In which j he lived hag been sold, his school scat j tered and it is not at all certain that at | bis advanced ago of life Palma would j have the energy to gather pupils, and j start, once again the wearying round of ; the. pedagogue's life. Central Valley never expected Pa'.rna j n come back. When he 1"ft. there to ,e Cuba's president, the country for ( residence at Camp Columbia, in a modest resilience, three quarters of an hour's ride from the city of Havana. Every morning by 8 o’clock he was at his desk. and li< worked straight through until 6 o’clock, taking a light, lunch in the middle of the day and eschewing . that hearty I o’clock dinner and siesta ; which Cubans of easy means think in- 1 separable from a comfortable life. NEW AMUSEMENTS. Ho bothered little with social affairs which was a source of much griei to Ha vana's butterfly population, for the gndy 'accoutred staffs of/ho Spanish captains were always ’>} t admired feature of the big dinners :cfl balls that mark tie- winter season. Nor would he it* nd the tl.-.'.ter or a bull fight on S-n » iy Hi devoted that day to his family and passed it in the American way. i i fa t he wjs much t>>o thoroughly imbued with our manners and * customs to please his fellow countrymen. But Palma’s most serious mistake wa in his appointments to offii education and long period i study made hint impatient If is related that one of the i out exciting the suspicions of the enemy, j guns and mortars put in position. So The morning light would dawn upon a quietly and secretly were these opera- quiet and deserted scene—not a sou! to ! tions carried on that the intelligence of be seen—not a sound t i be heard—not a an attack about to be made on Morris’ thing In indicate offensive operations '.hat island was startling even to ns. \Ye were the night had concealed. In this manner unprepared for t.hc activity and energy batteries were thrown up. and forty-six I displayed by General Gilmore." HOW TO FIND C'JT. Strange Stones of Warnings In Dreams, a World, Old Mystery Ey HENRY M. WILT3E. Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. ?‘ intellectual His own r touch with \ ignorance, galiani lead- wa;. nrs of Cuba in the «lwring aspired, after the republic had been pro claimed, to he chief of police fo • Havana, but that President. Paimu r« fu.--«•! him the place because he could rot read and write. The man became a bitter enemy of Palma, and a leader in the revolt which proved the president’s undoing. | Uncle Sam is now „ooXing after the present in Cuba, the future is veiled in i doubt. It may never be that the people I of the pearl of the Antilles will be able to govern themselves, but the experiences and failure of the lirst president of the j republic will always constitute one of the j a j soddent chapter.** in Cuban history. N all stages 01 developments hav* ex f :ised their pow- » i s i:i efforts to make* out th*- significance of dreams. Of this there are striking instances in Bible. I lie sa vage regards them as among the actualities of Ins life, fr in his dreams liq: ' been hunting, he hr- : ‘ 1 r : self. or soul - Ilia actually cn- jov .| the expedition. And seen or heard, .souls of others. iiisMi'. tli.it tiiey would be accepted as conclusive 'ey a Jury, under instructions from a learned fudge. The pr of of the second dream nuts upon common nelgh- boiliood belief, derived from the state- rankind merits of old people who were living at the time, and heard the circumstances related again and again, liev-r ■ their truthfulness. A WARNING DREAM. Judge N. A. Patters a, a widely known ; many citizen of East Tennessee, states that when a rugged boy of 8 years nr lather Fill a bottle or com "‘.on glass with your water and lt-t it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling indicate? an unhealthy condition of the kid ey? it it stains the linen it is evidence of kidney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it. or pain in the back i# also con vincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so otter. expressed that Dr. Kil ner s Swamp-Root, the great K - inp v remedy, fulfills every wish in overtoiling rheu matism. pain in the back, kidneys, iver. bladder and every part of the ur nary passage. It corrects inability to h >ld water and scalding pain in passing It. oi bail effects following use of liquor, n <j wine or beer, and over omea that un- ' pleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day. and to get up s during the night. The mild and immediate effort of Swamp Root the great kidney and blad Leaves from an Old Scrap Book Continued from Second Page. Simply, dreamer--. Dreams make the impress! v tifnl us than re .sr>t to he caricatures. They arge larger, the .striking more slve. tiie beautiful yet mere beau- In fine, t hoy fake firmer hold upon experiences. soon be convened to devise measures .■ filling up the ranks of on- gallant arm,. I have respectfully to suggest to the m- tborities a speedier nlar and certainly more effective one; . nd that is. let an inspector general be sent from Richmond. \a., to inspect e\ ry garrisoned post, hos- j upon such p'tal. arsenal, quartermasters’ and com- j intern perm. d that dreams were sent ny the gods, often for purposes of de ception Plati av< redence to t taut they are sent as divine manifesta tions. and again tie represented them as illustrating the dominant mental impulses and habits, depending for their character nditions as temperance or in the indulgence of appe- President Palma, in His Home. island, that he purchased arms, and wrote hundreds of articles designed to prevent the ause of Cuba I lib re to the Amur: an p-nple HIS NEIGHBORS WONDER. Central nYUey had only half believed, but i w when it saw ball the gaze of the whole world directed to itself, and read tint Palma was to be the first chief magistrate of the Cuban nation, it re solved that hi In triumph. old friends and neighbors, and set out to j j show the world that Cuba could make j ! proper use of its new-found independence j i Perhaps at that time, no -one, least of j all, Palma himself, entertained doubt# | that the outcome would be a success. J I Tiie new leader seemed to have all the i natural equipment. He had spent a life- | j time in the cause, hr was popular, he knew tiie country, its population and all its problems, and he Ifad that pride and liould take his depart,iri ; j oy in tho lina q triumph of Cuba that ; augured well for his ability to administer! | its affairs. Trained in the law. he had spent his earlier lift looking after estates lett him bv his at her. But comfort aid not weight with hii wi ll lie heard the call for' Cuban freedom. lie became identified; with the revolutionary party, and front j i hat day ti i independence was achieved- ne'er let up in ids battle against* missaries’ office, and wherever lie finds j an able-bodied man in these places per forming any duties that a wounded or in- | valid soldier can perform let the said j inspector have the power to pond the said , man to the field. This measure will gi ’c us at least fifty thousand men and ire- j vent any further call upon the workln B men of the Confederacy. A SOLDI EH. BATTLE AT KNOXVILLE. The Ciiattaac- ga oe^i p.-unened the j fpllowing item of nows: ■YVe stated in yesterday's paper that Fast Tennessee had been again visited by a Yankee force under General Carter, andi that they had been seen near t r.oir's Station. From that point they went towards Knoxville, and at 9 o'clock tit". Numerous modern philosophers have insist* d that we constantly dream while uslei-p. the mind being always in action. But this seems to he almost ix- clusively a metaphysical theory, while the physi logical view is that dreams arise largely- from conditions of the or gans, the muscles, the nerves; from pre vious impressions, anc the like causes. One experimenter found that leaving his knee exposed when he went to sleep caused him to dream of riding in a dili gence. during which occupation the knees at the task of weeding among rn which had been planted in a irehard. The ground v.-ns new. ■red with stumps, so that it was le to reacli uli of the weeds with the plow It*- worked v.-itli a sharp hoe. to say nothing of a keen appetite Tt was in the month of July, and the weather was Ists often eon- intensely hot: wherefore h<- wore no foot covering. At sunset lie dropped his hoe n an unfinished row, and went to supper. After the meal he went to bed, and slept: is soundly as a tired boy should. Ke --H.-1 e. illlgeiS I . , , ... , dreamed that the next day had come. , soon: tines' anf ] j, r had taken up his work where it g.iin visions, was dropned th<» liic! t before. Soon he. -olds of thei came to two small stumps, standing close! 'ogether and surrounded by a thick growth of grass and noxious weeds, i While lie was engaged in cutting them away a black viper sprang out and, struck him on tlie upper part of bis foot. The dream awakened him, and he die- i tinetly felt a pain in the foot that lv thought had been bitten. But he al most Instantly fell asleep again, and the next morning remembered nothing of the dream until he reached the field, took : ur> his hoe, and started to go to work. There, immediately before him. were the two stumps, surrounded by grass and weeds, presenting a perfect p tt ire of what ho had seen in tiie dream. The boy shuddered with fear, and took a hasty step backward. Then advancing he cautiously moved his hoe over the tops of the entangled weeds, and under neath saw. coiled and darting out its tongue rapidly, a large black viper, ready ; to strike. With a ouiek and well-aimed blow of the sharp hoe he dispatched the veto- | mous reptile, quite as deadly as the i dread rattler, 'and. as he thoroughly be- j lieves to this day, albeit he is more than I highest becausi power lias bee most distr medicine, you Sold by druggi -dollar sizes. Swamp-Ki. and a hoi sent absot Dr. Kiln., When wri you read i ’until Sun mistake, Swamp-Ro and the a every bott itim, tad , It stands able eura- thousand# remedv. It. bo it : m!s- "N’o. are opt to become cold. Many made, • many experiments by going to sleep and; three score and ten, save-t his life, having an assistant apply some slight "TV hat was it. lie repeated. - stimulation or tit.ilation to parts of his|a providential Warning of impending body, which usually caused him to dream, i danger. T have often heard of other in When tickled on the lips he dreamed of stances in which people yielded t.. the being cruelly tortured; that plasters were; impressions made by dreams, or mental ANOTHER PRESENTIMENT that had rested bv ■arried to was held he re turn tn ir-resist; In tin hied in : unit-.I to the United States and then be- 1 -.line postmaster general of the •Repub lic of Honduras. The Spanish government had meantime confiscated Palma's estates in Cuba, and as there was no prospect that lie could return to his native land, ho conceived | he plan, after his retirement from the Honduras postmastership of going to some inland town in the United States, and starting n school for Cuban boys. He •hose Central Valley. WORKING FOR FF.EEDOM. During the quiet years that Faima spent in Central Valle.', he still worked for Cuban freedom with unflagging zeal. He was younger tiie-, and would have • gone to the front and fight, but his : compatriots recognized that he was not a , man of blood and had no especial equip- merit as a soldier, iie could do the cause , more good by looking after tis American interests, and tailing care of financial ‘ j problems constantly arising. As president of tiie Cuban Junta he dt- j reeled activities in a dozen little known ! lines, and yet so great was his poise that . only Cubans knew tiie services the little schoolmaster was rendering. He had. J though miles away from the battlefields. ■ gained such a reputation union if*rr. peo- ; pie that when the war was over and j Cuban freedom assured and the presiden- | tial election came, he distanced all the j soldiers, and was chosen president by a : big majority. flic morni dinner wi ■ jrurney j I One aft work, the i He tried I harder, bu ; his ax oi ' ftom the intention •then came , shall maki j will laugh ' work just i But by t i the log in j such firm shouldered i Arrived session oi eselt. if I k thougl - he ha • “fool of hirr by working the down. He. threw* lor and retu-ned hopping with th" Lately home, but * what a fool 1 nd how my wife- sc several hours' it—a fool whim.” I finished cutting whim” had taken, that he again ; looking The Palma Family. miles around gave itself up to a grand | Perhaps now sadness Palma. r< demonstration in his honor. The community suddenly awakened to he discovery that for years it had un wittingly had in its midst a great man. It had "ften heard whispers that the little schoolmaster was a big factor in < ,’uban affairs, that he w s at the head of important secret, movements having flags, those of Cuba and the Unilec for their aim the freedom of Cuba that j States intertwined, and pictures of Palm.- he saw big leader he raised lends for purusing in Washington, that ' ar on the * It is not improbable that instead of being an aid to iiis administration of af fairs. Palma’s simple habits of iit'e were : detriment. Like ail the Spanish people, the Cubans hen prominent citizens ] j iav0 a love for and a fear of splendor, terms of lavish praise, ! Palma had lived in simplicity at ventral Valley. Being- president of Cuba did not change, his ideas, and lie planned iiis life on a scale that Jefferson might have ad mired. He did occupy the palace that had been the headquarters of a long line of Spanish captains during the day? of Castilian supremacy, but he removed wore on every side. Then Palma, with J much of the elaborate furnishings, tears in hi s eyes, said goodbye to his | In the summer time he took up Ids calls that day, w referred to him in whena parade a milt long, with fife and drum corps, bands, red-shirted firemen, hundreds of school children and compa nies of grangers, paid its noisy tribute. The little village was trimmed with esterdaj morning tiiey were met uy the small garrison and citizens of that city, a short distance this side. The action t once i-emmenced, an,j continued for Iiree hours, when the enemy were »- pulsed, and retired from the field, going in the direction of Strawberry Plains bridge on the East Tennesso and Vir- j g.'nia railroad. Dispatches to this city ; represent the fight lo rave been despe v - i ate. The enemy’s force amounted to I between four and five thousand, consist- ' ing of mounted infantry, cavalry and ar- : Cilery. Our force comprised MeClimg's . Battery, a small force of Confederate troops and the citizens of Knoxville and that vicinity. Wo have nothing as *o the killed' and wounded on either side, except that Captain Me Hung, of Me- CluH’g’s battery, wa= hided. The enemy left their killed and wounded on the fie’d | Ixiter.— At a late hour last night w*- . learned that it was Liuetenant MeClung. i of the ordnance department, who wn i killed, and that we only lost one otho- j man killed and six wounded. The Yin kees in their retreat abandoned filly itorses. President Palma’s Old New York Home to him 1 then rudely torn impressions that came in the j ptesentiments, thereby saving t r may lie tiie cause of dreams 1 from disaster or death." form of elves a way. What there will always be people to believe that tiiey have vastly more significance than : verindulgence in mince pie. or lying in an uncomfortable position. In the course of a search for different! Washington counties, in the latter, close material tiie writer recently came upon! ti the present site of Johnson City two interesting cases of warning by One night he dreamed that he was out dreams, and one of presentiment, A DREAM AND A TRAGEDY. About the year 1840 a well-to-do farmer lived near the line of Carter and trained a t uvid enj, lid of hii dog. which was sr demanded, he tost.il the uninvited guest that if she had es and witl his house in the pos- iken Indian and his pointing a loaded gtn. iby, -.chile the squaw is she locked on, 1r lyment of the fun. - axe and a faithful vage when occasion y rid his premises of i. His wife declared^ ■aped death by gun- uuld soon have> danger In all three instances being from snaKes. The facts regarding the first dream and the presentiment, and what followed, are so we!! attested by such reliable wit- shot she believ died of fright. But after all, it is certain that only a very small per cent of dreams and o-e sentiments hit the mark. As Thackery Of t resentiments which soma people are alfivnys having, some surely must come right." THE KINDEST THING. ~' 1 Ranter—I thought this paper was freindly to me Editor—So it is. What’s the matter now? Ranter—I made a speech at the ban- .ipturned tree suaii quet last night and you didn’t print a dream. Let us see if tho line of it. ’ j Editor—Well, what further proof did ,-ou want of our friendship? HOW YANKEES GOT MORRIS IS LAND. j The X"\v York i . . pit'll;-died a 1- ng tetter during the war ghi -z a > accoun I ,.f how the yankees got fot thold oi ' Morris island. In th, letter the w.-,;-: j said; •General Gilmore has awakened th, i department front its lethargy. Takii , j Folly island as the base he has com- i meneed siege opt-rations against t i.iu, j ton which bill fair to result si ! The batteries or. the southern j of Morris island were captur ! morning of the i^t.ii ! troops now occup threatening Fort \ \ Point batteries, i j the northern extre- entrance to the he, - “Morns' island . • island by a r.crrox ' house inlet. On tin Stomach trouble is not really a sickness, but a symptom. 11 is a symptom that a certain set of nerves is ailing Not the voluntary nerves that, enable you to walk aud talk and act—but the AUTOMATIC STOMACH NERVES over which your mind lias no control. I have not room here to explain how these tender, tiny nerves control and operate the stom ach. How worry breaks them cown and causes indigestion. How misuse wears them out ai.d i an-is dyspepsia. How neglect may bring on kidney, heart, and other troubles through sym pathy. I have not room to explain hew thi sv n rves may be reached end strength, ned and vitalized and made stronger by a remedy I si eru tears iu perfecting—now known by physicians and Druggists every where as L>r. £>hoop’sRer tor- ii’ i(Tablets or Liquid.) I have not room to exp! tin ho:v this renied.’. by removing the cause, usually puts a certain end to indigestion, belch- ctromity Inc heartburn, insomnia, nervousness dyspep.a. on O.e AH of these things i.r* fully explained in the book I wiil s'-nd you free when you write. Do not fail 1 . ‘to send for the book. It tells how the solar •<* island and are plexus governs digestion and a hundred other r and Cummings’ things every one ought to know—for all of us. at arc situated a* ?’»ne time or other have indigestion. With the And command tii,a and Fort Sumter. ,a.rated from Folly For the free book n „,i T i„!,| and the Health nn 1, cell, d bt 0 iu Token you must ad- >oint of land, lor dr*> B s Dr. Shoop, Box >kl will send free my "Heaith Token”—an intended passport to good health. the last low weeks, vur troops have been K*’Sp?av.ineAVis. State S busily engaged In building sand batteries which book you want. \ and mounting heavy guns right under the Dr Shoop’s Restorative Tablets—give full Book 1 on Dyspepsia. Book " on the Heart. Boole JSon theKidney*. Book 4 for Women. Book 5 for Men. BooktSouHncumutism in a field, and, on moving some dirt from around the roots of an overthrown trey, saw a large rattlesnake, coiled and realy to strike. He tried to iiit it with a stick, but it sprang and sunk Us fangs in trs neck, causing his almost instant death. When tie awoke in the morning the dream seemed sc> like a terrible reality ! that he felt impelled to tel! it to a near relghbor. “Go with me.” he begged. “I know exactly where as I saw in th | snake is there.” j They went and found the reptile, coded j just as he had seen it in his sleep. “No,” said he, ”a part of my dream has come true, but I’ll see to it that the last and worst part does not come tc 1'i.ss. I will kill the monster." "No." said his neighbor, "don’t risk that. Let me kil! it." "I uni the one to do the killing and prove that the kilter part of the dretm was false," replied the farmer, ami arm- i ie.g- himself with a stout stick he -ad- • .one - . took deliberate aim and struck, bu; while h< was In the act his fo't ' slipped on a small round stone, lie stum- | bled, missed, and the snake sprang at i him. It struck him in the neck, near j tlu jugular vein, and he was dead before : his neighbor could get nlm back to his i heme. FOREWARNED. 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It is indeed a magic remedy and l am int, thero to turn Ills stock out Oil t.io j glad to give this nee trial to any sufferer Irom sore Scene in Havana on President Palma's Inauguration Bay. guns light under the ‘ noses of tiie rebels, and wit’nui 800 yards three weeks’ treulrrent. Each form—liquid or . of their works on Morris’ island. The tablet—has equal merit.Druggistseverywhere, i work was all performed under cover of j the night, and so quietly that the rebels I had no suspicion of our movements. ! Screened from observation by the na- : tore of the ground, hundreds of men were ; engaged night after night, silently arid j industriously throwing up earthworks and mounting heavy guns so near to the j enemy that a loud word migiu have re vealed the work. Shortly before daylight j brush would he so disposed as ta eon- ! ccal the work of the previous night, with- Dr. Step’s Restorative mountain to range during the spring. : ummer and autumn months. lie and his wife had long been -planning a visit to relatives in Rhea and Monroe counties, and it had beer, decided best i to drive the horses to the farm before | tie/ left. It udis his intention to go i alter them :iie day before the one fixed j upon for the start. : When that morning came he said + o i his wife. "Jennie, I have singular pre- ! sentiment that if I go on the mountains | today I shall be bitten by u rattlesnake ■ and die. Suppose we postpone our trip I for a day.” any eye trouble. Hundreds bate tiirown away ‘heir glasses after using it a week. Preachers, teachers, doctors, law yers, engineers, students, dressmakers and all who use their eyes under SSagM Lotion a ;afe, sure and quick reli« ^ If you bav*t *< r»! eyes or any eye trouble, write me today. 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